Apply constraints

Screen the capable candidates against your hard limits and drop any that break one: privacy and consent, what happens if it fails, how easily you can back out, effects on your own skill growth, relationships, legal exposure, and money or time you actually have.

Screen the capable candidates against your hard limits and drop any that break one: privacy and consent, what happens if it fails, how easily you can back out, effects on your own skill growth, relationships, legal exposure, and money or time you actually have.

Example

The AI app clears capability but fails two limits: it auto-summarizes chapters, which removes the retrieval practice your exam memory depends on, and its export is a locked format, so switching back in month six would cost you 200 hours of notes. It is out.